Indonesian Capital's Infrastructure Strained by Flooding

By

Ben Otto And

I Made Sentana

Updated Jan. 20, 2013 5:18 p.m. ET

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Drier skies over the weekend enabled Indonesia's capital to recover from its worst flooding in six years, but thousands of people remained in temporary shelters and the damage is expected to run into tens of millions of dollars, testing the limits of the booming capital's straining infrastructure.